❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) Make Your Weakness the Source of Your Strength Your church Covenant II Mari Ikeda How are we practicing in the church the second promise of Your Church Covenant, “Love and serve each other”? Whether or not we actually practice it well, what kind of community are we trying to become? Today, I’d like to learn from the conversations between Jesus and Peter, what church is, and how we should be. There are three important points. Let us start with reading the passage of the first encounter of Jesus and Peter in John 1. A. Be yourself 1. Jesus chose you because you were you Andrew,…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) מ(Mem) The perfect food sweeter than honey Series: Finding the Gospel in Psalm 119ーA Hymn to the Law　13/22 Psalm 119:97-104 Andy Nagahara This is the thirteenth in a series of Psalm 119, which is called a hymn to the Law. Today, we will focus on verses 97-104, in which the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “מ（Mem),” is placed at the beginning of each line of the thirteenth paragraph. Mem is the Hebrew letter equivalent to the Greek letter Μμmu, and the English letter M. The character is believed to have originated from a letter depicting water (Hebrew: מים mayim). For the people who had…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) “From Solitude to Community to Ministry” Luke 6:12-26　 Yourchurch Covenant, (* This message is based on Henry Nouwen’s essay in 1995 titled, “Moving from Solitude to Community to Ministry.”) Mari Ikeda Today I’d like to leave my series on John’s Gospel, to talk about the membership of this church. In this church, members are not members forever once they become members. Rather, we ask everyone including pastors to decide annually. To be specific, we ask people to make a covenant to keep three promises. Three promises are, first to love God, second to love each other in the church, and third to go out from…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) ל (Lamedh) The Secret of Eternal Life Series: Finding the Gospel in Psalm 119ーA Hymn to the Law　12/22 Psalm 119:89-96 Andy Nagahara This is the twelfth in a series of Psalm 119, which is called a hymn to the Law. Finally, we are now in the second half of the Psalm 119. We will focus on verses 89-96, in which the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “ל (lamedh),” is placed at the beginning of each line of the twelfth paragraph.This is equivalent to the Greek letter lambda, and the English letter L. It is considered to derive from a script depicting a shepherd’s staff…

❖ Video ❖ Audio (Message) “You Will See Greater Things” John 1:43-51 Mari Ikeda Today I’m going to continue the series of John’s Gospel, so I’ll read 1:43-51. This passage, continuing from last time, is the scene in which the first disciples met Jesus. It was Andrew and Peter last time. Today it will be persons called Philip and Nathanael. Let’s read a little at a time, starting with v.43-44. A. Philip 1. Discovered by Jesus (43-44) 43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Here we have…